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May 8, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Room on Rue Amélie

This past week, I read three novels that took place in #France. My goal throughout this project has been to read one per week, but some...

Mar 21, 20211 min read

BOOK REVIEW: East of the West ~ A Country in Stories, by Miroslav Penkov

Miroslav Penkov is a talented young writer who captures his beloved homeland of #Bulgaria very masterfully in this collection of eight...

Mar 14, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andrić

This novel was written by Nobel Prize winning writer and proud native son of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivo Andrić, in 1945, and was...

Mar 7, 20211 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Square of Revenge by Pieter Aspe

This novel was written by one of the most popular contemporary Flemish writers, Pieter Aspe, who lives in Brugge, Belgium in 2013, and...

Mar 1, 20213 min read

BOOK REVIEW: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

When I started this project, I decided to read fictional novels as I make my way through our virtual travels of Europe. I could have...

Feb 20, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya

I was especially excited to read this week's book - my selection for Azerbaijan along our virtual backpacking trek through Europe - The...

Feb 15, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Third Man by Graham Greene

This week's book, The Third Man by Graham Greene, is set in post war Vienna, Austria in the 1940s. In doing some research about this...

Feb 7, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

What do you know about the Armenian Genocide of 1915? About World War I, in general? I am ashamed to say that it wasn't until I have...

Feb 1, 20212 min read

BOOK REVIEW: The File on H. by Ismail Kadere

The File on H. is a novel featuring two young Irish academic scholars who are studying oral, epic poetry - such as Homer's Illiad and...

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